The Ottawa Press clique “Mean Girls” targets Conservative MP

I’ve written before about this select group of Parliamentary journos who act as a pack and cross-over many news organizations when Postmedia’s Stephen Maher was kicked out of a Manning Centre function and CTV’s Don Martin got suspended after a confrontation with Harper’s ex-communication director (see here).

Those were examples of how this clique cover-up for each other and send the ‘word’ out as a warning to other media to lay-off certain topics but they also work as a team to attack as they did Saturday against Conservative MP Cheryl Gallant.

I noticed a re-Tweet from the Globe’s Ian Bailey on something his on-line editor Stephen Wicary sent out:

“Seems one of @cherylgallant’s constituents is unimpressed with her #cpc script-reading acumen”

Which linked to a letter-to-the-editor in an obscure newspaper (see here).

So I asked Wicary:

@wicary You trolling through small newspapers’ letters looking for one person’s opinion on @cherylgallant?

Wicary’s response:

“Nope, sorry Dean. Just keeping an eye on Twitter while watching Jays. That letter popped up and seemed worth sharing.”

But of course can’t help himself as his real personality shows up when he adds this:

“If you don’t like it @bcbluecon, wanna talk instead about why you’ve been excommunicated from your own party?”

How Wicary thinks I would possibly be intimidated by this kind of ‘threat’ is beyond me as I’ve been completely open and written extensively about my political battles.

My suspicions were confirmed when Bailey re-Tweeted this from CBC’s Kady O’Malley:

“Via @wicary, a spirited letter to the editor that deserves to be read: Gallant’s response to third party”

To which I sent out:

“Mean Girls are on the prowl today @kady @wicary Funny how they tune into one obscure letter to editor”

This set off Wicary accusing me of being a Conservative Party secret operative which completely counters his earlier taunt about me getting “excommunicated”. Being good enough for the Feds but not for the BC Cons is not exactly a slur in my books.

What Wicary and his secret group are really upset about is that their unprofessional and unethical game is being exposed for what it is.

Blatant voter fraud in NWT but no cries of outrage from media

Funny how when actual voter fraud is discovered in a riding where it could easily tip the balance towards a particular candidate, there is no Canadian media uproar featuring union-funded protesters.

It has been found that people not only voted for someone else in the riding of Monfwi during the 2011 NWT election, the election official allowed them to do it:

Two people from Whati, N.W.T., admitted they had someone else vote for them. Lori Ann Nitsiza and Jason Beaverho were both out of the community when their votes were cast last October.

Whati’s Deputy Returning Officer – Lisa Marie Zoe – allowed the illegal voting to happen. 

Unbelievable…you’d now expect the ‘book’ to be thrown at these fraudsters and especially the official who helped them cheat right?

Nope:

“In this case because the electors were forthcoming about their actions and because the deputy returning officer was generally acting in good faith and doing the best she could to administer the election that day, we determined that a compliance agreement would be more appropriate than some other type of action,” said David Brock, the chief electoral officer of the N.W.T. (see here)

I really would like to know how enabling someone to commit fraud as a elections official is “acting in good faith” and love to see the election handbook that has it as a qualifier.

Why is BC Conservative leader bashing Harper in Maritimes media?

It’s one thing for BC Conservative leader John Cummins to talk to the media here in BC about federal fishing changes but what is he thinking by going on the radio in Newfoundland to bad mouth PM Stephen Harper?

“A former Canadian Alliance MP, and the current leader of the Conservative Party of British Columbia says he’s very much against changes to the Fish Act put forward by his federal political counterparts.” (see here)

The BC Conservative brainiacs need to remind their leader that there are no votes for them on the East Coast and this does nothing but damage their tenuous (at best) relationship with their federal counterparts.

Looks like Cummins has a hard time letting go of his personal grudges even when it damages the greater cause.

 

 

Will Kingston Public Library hang a naked painting of Layton at whorehouse?

Now that I see how profitable it is to paint Canadian political leaders in the nude (see here), I was thinking that we [Conservatives] should get a collection started to commission a painting (as a fundraiser) of the former NDP leader Jack Layton’s visit to his favourite Toronto rub-n-tug.

I don’t want to step on the creativity of our artist but I envision it depicting the moment the police burst into Layton’s room just as his chosen Asian hooker tosses wet Kleenex into the garbage.

Certainly the Kingston Public Library would happily give us wall space to display it to the visiting children and the Canadian media will cover it the same as they have the Harper one right?

Conservative MP panders to small eco-crowd with voting ‘promise’

Nothing grates on my nerves more than a MP who wants to please everyone so badly and has the spine of a jelly fish when confronted by an activist-type group.

The latest example comes from Conservative MP David Wilks from the riding near where I live, Kootenay-Columbia. He went to a meeting convened by a relatively small group concerned about Bill C-38 and had this to say during it:

“I will stand up and say the Harper government should get rid of Bill C-38″

Wow right? That takes some nerve to go against your own government especially when using the term “THE Harper government” as if you are an opposition MP and not a member of that caucus.

Except Wilks doesn’t have the brass to do it on his own and hedges his ‘promise’ with this qualifier:

However, he added that he alone couldn’t stop the bill and 12 other Conservative MPs would have to vote against the government bill with him for him to do so.

And that, has zero chance of happening, he said after the meeting. (see here)

What a weasel. Wilks should either stand by his convictions or shut his trap.

Sucking up to a group who never vote Conservative, actively campaign against him and detest Harper makes Wilks look like a fool and only reminds those who did, that they need a new candidate.

Update: Wilks has now “clarified” his opposition to this bill (see here)